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We have had Hybrid Honda Civic cars for a number of years now and would not change. However if the battery does go, or nears the end of it's life, as our last one did, the cost of a new battery is very expensive, over £2000

Forgot the knife grinder. Remember him coming up the road and knocking doors and then treadling away sharpening the knives

I'm afraid they are making me fly away

For those who don't know, when there is an item in foreign language, if you right click it, an option comes up to translate it into English

I didn't realise so many 'ordinary' plants were poisonous or caused irritation. Thanks for info. Pete

Thanks for that Gary.

Sure is Wow Pete! Thought it was only the Americans who had giant things. Now seems the Welsh do also

Great photos there Notsharp. Had a friend who I met in the RAF who lived at Nairn. Visited many times and always said would love to live there but too cold for me.

I echo the sentiments of Astoness. Always a wonderful lady and certainly a steadying influence on her family and this country. Only time I have seen her was as Princess when the royal family toured various places shortly after the war. They came to Birmingham and Mom and I stood in Corporation...

My Dad used to repair all our shoes, usually after we had run out of cardboard to put in them when there was a big hole. No, it was usually when he had enough money to buy some shoe leather. He was very good at it. I only threw out the last from our garage a few months ago. From that comes the...

Quite agree Smudger, They stand on our chimney pot, or the cowl on top and call to us down the chimney. I'm sure they are reminding us to put some more food out for the birds

I see no reply yet Pete, and I havn't a clue. What are they? [apart from gruesome]

Same here Eric but still prefer it done in the oven and coming out with a nice skin on it. Also love it with Nutmeg on it but wife doesn't, so guess who wins.

Perhaps a little off track but just thinking of all the work and money that has gone into getting these rockets into space, yet the Osprey chicks I have been watching since they hatched, [on the Loch of the Lowes web site], now just over 4 months old, will soon be taking off for a journey of...

Mine aren't either Stokkie !!!!

Whilst we do have a variety of birds coming into the garden there are certainly not as many as there used to be, much to our disappointment. However, we don't know what takes place early in the morning long before we are up. Saddened last week to find a dead blackbird in the pond. They usually...

My first holiday was in August 1946, an exchange holiday with Dutch children arranged by Handsworth Tech. Dutch Kids came over here and stayed for two weeks with us and we then went over there and stayed for two weeks with Dutch families. There was no cost for accommodation but £25 for travel...

Does anyone know if the chippy at the corner of Abbey Road and Slade Road Erdington still exists? That was our local and I still remember taking the Birmingham Mails to them for wrapping the fish and chips in

That brings back memories !!!

The other question that could be asked, " What is a pantograph?"